any anons with family stories about the great war ?
>>223984910great great grandfather got mustarded fortunately he left my great grandmother with a child before heading out and he mygreat grandfather got captured in the first weeks on the war and chilled in a POW camp until 1945 lolll check if i can find the pictures to upload
>be great grandpa>fight on the Russian front>get captured >the footman wanted to lynch him on the spot>some officer stops them>"We don't execute PoW is the Russian the Imperial Army, that's a communist degeneracy and it's still not 1917 o algo">taken to a PoW camp on the Oinkraine>According to him Ukranian men are super lazy and only the women work there>Lenin one day visits the camp to recruit soldiers>idk how he got home
>>223985289he got lucky
>>223984910I just know he fought on the Austrian side, was a Liutenant. My mom found his grave.
>>223984910Only thing I know is that my paternal grandfather hid in the mountains during the civil war
>>223984910dont know much, some fought on the italian front, got some medals, one of them likely was in the imperial army before the war already, got a medal given out in gratitude following the war to a relative aswell
>>223985770i do have seen 2 pictures of the mentioned g.g.grandpa, one where he looks normal with darker hair and one later with white/gray hair, both times in uniform, and moustache
>>223984910My grandpa unironically killed french settlers with his gun and when independence was achieve he refused to give it up to the government in exchange for veteran benefits.
Grand-grand-grandfather fought in Russo-Japanese war and it radicalized him before the revolution in 1905. He got then arrested but managed to escape and lived until 1914 in Canada, thinking he'll never come back. After WW1 started he came to Europe, joined Austro-Hungarian army, survived the whole war, joined Polish army and fought on the Ukrainian front (not Battle of Warsaw) against the Soviets, never rose above Sergeant. Apparently left a woman, child and business in Canada, built another family here, in September 1939 joined army, survived but when the armed forces were evacuated via Romania he refused to leave Poland and was executed by NKVD.The story is bonkers but we at least have some proof for each of those: that he took part in Russo-Japanese war, went to Canada, fought for Austria-Hungary and fought for Poland twice. The rest is family history.
>>223986042What a chad
>>223984910my great grandpa was living in the us at the time, the war crashed the economy o algo and made him unemployed so he decided to move back to sweden
>>223986219So he didn't kill nobody? Cringe. Imagine having a grandpa that never took a man's life and lived a full life afterwards. Your grandpa is a bitch.
>>223984910My dad had a grand uncle that went, so my great grand uncle.I dont know anything about him. My dad only told me sometimes he'd talk about the war and the usual comment was about how loud the artillery was.Thats all i know.
>>223984910My great grampa was drafted and left his small Palestinian town to fight for the ottomans, when he came back and told people in his village about the technology he saw (specifically radios) they thought he was crazy until that stuff started getting imported after the war.
